Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Patali Champika Ranawaka said that national electrical grid is not controlled by the government or ministers but by CEB engineers.

He stated this at the launch of Homagama Municipal Development Project a short while ago.

However, there is no reason for an islandwide power outage to occur, he said. Such thing to happen 3 times in a 6-month period was suspicious, Ranawaka stated.

The biggest political joke is that parties who misappropriated billions of rupees from Ceylon Electricity Board and by building power plants commenting about the power outage, Ranawaka stressed.

4 power interruptions have occurred during last 10 years because of natural causes, though there was no reason for an island-wide blackout, the Minister said.